Working on the canopy hinge and fitting. This was the scary part, to cut a big hole for the canopy to fit in. I had purchased the pre built canopy option but it did need to be trimmed to size. Note the bubble level on the front of the fuselage shell. The fuselage came as 4 parts and needed to be joined top & bottom, front and back, not easy to trim to size.

The vertical tail and the rear fuselage shell where its going.

 Some of my pictures are fading out and changing colors after 15 years. This is part of the reason why I wrote these WEB pages.

Initial fitting of the fuselage, looks pretty fast already!

Another angle on the same subject.

And the tail goes in. Note the rudder hinge in place and the hole for the tail spring. The engine is on its roll around stand and is mounted to the firewall.